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trq
I *am* the reinforcements
CAGiversary! 2365 Posts Joined 11.7 Years Ago

The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany. For anyone who's gotten worn down by post-Tolkien fantasy, going back to the greats who predate him is wonderfully refreshing, and while Dunsany couldn't be more different from Robert Howard (as a person and as a writer), they're both great reads if you're tired of all the now-cliche genre tropes: dark elves, orcs, bands of adventurers, blah blah blah.

#14
joe2187
I AM THE DANGER!
CAGiversary! 6359 Posts Joined 7.9 Years Ago

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompsom: Basically thompson takes a newspaper job in puerto rico and fucks, smokes, gambles, and drinks his way through san juan until he gets pissed off and stirs up some shit.

The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompsom: Basically thompson takes a newspaper job in puerto rico and fucks, smokes, gambles, and drinks his way through san juan until he gets pissed off and stirs up some shit.

Noice . This book is also going to be the material for the next movie.

Just finished re-reading (for the 3rd time) Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (the novel, not the manga).

Basic summary:
Japan's youth are horrible. They're causing too much trouble and frankly there are too many of them. So in light of this, Japan's government has created something called the "BR ACT" or Battle Royale. Each year 32 classes of high school students are chosen and then they are taken to various isolated places where they fight it out and kill each other till there is only 1 student remaining. Each student is given a bag with bread, water, and a weapon (anything ranging from an UZI to a spork, yes. A spork.) In the book we follow a single class and watch as they deal with having to kill people they've called friends, watch just how fickle humans can be when their lives are on the line, see just how little you can truly trust someone in the line of fire.

Great book, everyone should pick it up. It's basically a modern lord of the flies and worth the time reading.
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After Finishing BR for the 3rd time I switched to Boogiepop and Others by Kouhei Kadono and it blew my mind. Just wow. Pick this up. Now. No you don't have to have seen the anime. No you don't have to know anything about the series ( I sure as hell didn't) but pick it up now.

Pretty much there's been young girls disappearing from school and no one's doing anything about it. However there's a legend amongst the girls - a legend of Boogiepop; a shinigami or god of death. Boogiepop has appeared and is taking souls...or is he? In reality there's darker things at work here - namly the maneater Manticore.

It's just a great book.
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Right now I'm reading Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe. I have absolutely no clue what it's about because I'm just on the first page... >< Yea.

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